Welcome
to my March 2002 photo album from Japan.
To
read the stories that accompany these photos, click
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Joseph
hard at work
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Looking
unusually gormless
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Ah!!
I've been solarized!
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This
may look like a harmless clothes line - but look again.
These poles are sold from the back of vans that ply the
sidestreets of every Japanese town, blasting out the same
melody over and over again. These small businesses are
almost always run by the Japanese mafia. It's not drugs
that generate crime here, it's clothes-poles.
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Aging
artist
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Oil
seed rape in central Tokyo
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Old
meets new. A 300+ year old Japanese Tea House is dwarfed
by 6 skyscrapers-under-construction
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Asahi
Beer Building, or, as it's known to most, the "Poo
Building"
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The
bird population in Tokyo is causing major problems. Enter
the bird trap, from where the crow-like animals are taken
to be gassed
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They
fly in through a hole in the top to reach the bait, but
cannot escape because of the metal wires that hang from
around the entrance
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Land
is precious in Tokyo. What I want to know is how they
got those cars up there...
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There's
not a single river without concrete banks in Japan!
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The
fully automatic robotic talking singing popcorn machine.
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Crackin'
parkin Grommit! (Papier mache art)
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Atsuko San |
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Spring
is here
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Kurichan
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Aya
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Plum
blossom
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Plum
Blossom
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